About the Authors
James S. Bell Jr. is the owner of Whitestone Communications and has served as executive
editor of Moody Press and director of religious publishing at Doubleday. He
earned his MA in English from University College Dublin and is the author or
coauthor of six books, among them several Complete
Idiot’s Guides, including the Bible,
the Book of Revelation, and the
Reformation and Protestantism. Mr. Bell lives in Chicago with his wife,
Margaret, and their four children.
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.
About the Narrators
John Ratzenberger
was a house framer living in London when he began his career in the performing
arts. His first role was a patron in The
Ritz. He appeared in minor roles in movies including Firefox, A Bridge Too Far, Superman,
Superman II, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Motel Hell, Gandhi,
and others. He is best known for playing mailman Cliff Clavin on the sitcom Cheers and for providing a voice part in
all of Pixar’s feature films. John is on the boards of Pepperdine and Sacred
Heart Universities.
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.